Billboard – Chart Date 01/04/2014

Kelly Clarkson’s original Christmas song “Underneath the Tree” tops the Adult Contemporary airplay chart for its fourth week.

As we all know, there are approximately 61,223 Billboard charts. This is a summary of just some of those charts and how the Idols/Voicers/XFactorers/AGTers did on them this week. Please feel free to post rankings from your favourite BB chart or any other numbers you care to share. This is the daily numbers thread. The date in the header is the published chart date.

YOUR HOLLY, JOLLY MARKETSHARE TALLY: As you might have assumed from reading the item immediately below and/or scanning the Top 25 posted on Tuesday, Columbia’s star power easily lifted the label to the top of the frontline marketshare scoreboard for the week before Christmas. What’s more, those 614k in combined album sales for Beyoncé, One Direction, Susan Boyle and Celine Dion gave Rob Stringer’s elves a similarly decisive win in the overall/TEA competition. Expect a similar outcome next week. (12/27a)

Alex and Sierra’s compilation album from their songs from the season has remained in the top 70, even moving back up to now being in the top 60! I’m surprised it isn’t at least in the Billboard top 200! Any comments on why?

elliegrll

Physical albums still account for the majority of albums sold. Digital albums are still just around 33-36%. An album that’s ranked in the 70s on Itunes isn’t even selling 5,000 copies.

I don’t know. The songs that Justin has been releasing have been lauded by some critics, but ignored by almost everyone else, except the Beliebers. I think that Justin’s managers and label are trying to take him in a different direction, and that this new sound is almost like an experiment, meaning that they are trying to gauge what the public thinks of the new sound. Given that, maybe they don’t want any numbers that could put Justin in a negative light, especially if he is compared negatively to other artists, mainly One Direction.

tripp_ncwy

It just seems a little shady on iTunes part.

Mateja Praznik

Because Bieber’s label asked iTunes not to report the numbers.

I listened to some songs from Music Mondays/Journals collection and the majority sounds like a collection of unfinished demos or leftover tracks. No wonder the project isn’t being properly promoted. One song got a music video, but there is no radio single. More or less this collection of songs is just for Justin’s hardcore fanbase and it’s iTunes-only release.

Now I’m reading that Justin’s new movie isn’t doing well (admittedly it opened on just over 1000 screens). Justin is talking about retirement, but his manger apparently just wants him to take a year off.

elliegrll

I doubt that they were the ones who made the decision. There’s no reason why they wouldn’t want to release his numbers.

elliegrll

Many of the songs are too short, which is one of the reasons why it was just greedy to release them individually to ITunes and other retailers prior to releasing the album. Since the songs are meant to show people a more mature side to Justin, it would have made more sense to release them for free, like Kanye West did during the lead up to the release of “My Dark Twisted Fantasy”.

Anny_nanny

As of 22/12/2013 Top 20 releases of 2012:

03 ONE DIRECTION – Up All Night 12,000 1,915,000 04 ONE DIRECTION – Take Me Home 13,000 1,880,000 08 CARRIE UNDERWOOD – Blown Away 11,000 1,622,000 19 PHILLIP PHILLIPS – The World From The Side Of The Moon 8,000 1,058,000